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  • The rationalists had always held that the ability to distinguish between right and wrong is inherent in human reason.   (source)
  • Maybe it is because the boy is my brother and I am blind to some things, but I do not believe, not for one minute, that he is cruel, that he is inherently mean, the way that my daddy could be.   (source)
    inherently = in a manner that exists as an inseparable part or characteristic
  • The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.   (source)
    inherent = existing as an inseparable characteristic
  • My father was acutely aware of the dangers inherent in our new surroundings and lectured me regularly on the perils of strangers and how I should always go to the police if I ever needed help.†   (source)
  • But if every man has his strengths, one of the Bishop's was that he was never more than a step away from petty protocol and an inherent sense of superiority.†   (source)
  • My stats were all completely maxxed out, and I now had a list of spells, inherent powers, and magic items that seemed to scroll on forever.†   (source)
  • The mysterious magic inherent in the Divine Proportion was written at the beginning of time.†   (source)
  • The U.S. Supreme Court, in Baze v. Rees, later held that the execution protocols and drug combinations weren't inherently unconstitutional.†   (source)
  • What's inhere.†   (source)
  • There was something inherently peaceful about the day, despite the darkness of her encounter with Nehemia.†   (source)
  • Astronauts are inherently insane.†   (source)
  • In the beginning, his advantage isn't so much that he is inherently better but only that he is a little older.†   (source)
  • There's an inherent flaw in the plan that both Gale and I were too blind to see.†   (source)
  • I will use all the power bestowed on me to further justice, to be merciful, to honor the inherent rights of all peoples, to respect the peace between all nations, to rule with kindness and patience, and to seek the wisdom and council of my peers and brethren.†   (source)
  • It seemed to have an aura, a warmth, but also an inherent danger.†   (source)
  • I just prayed for someone who was inherently good and nice.†   (source)
  • It started with disconcerted looks, his brows crinkled while he chewed on his bottom lip, followed by deep sighs and eventually sleepless nights, the floorboards creaking under his feet while I lay awake in my room, to where we are now, an inherent desperation in Henri's strained voice.†   (source)
  • Walsh had created the contraption to compensate for the deficiencies of his quarterback, but an offense based on a lot of short, well-timed passes turned out to offer surprising inherent advantages.†   (source)
  • The only real certainty was the disruption that would be caused by long-distance travel and the myriad other difficulties inherent in building a complex structure far from home.†   (source)
  • And in literature, there is another reason: writing a meal scene is so difficult, and so inherently uninteresting, that there really needs to be some compelling reason to include one in the story.†   (source)
  • Dan shook his head, happy to have his assumption—that Mae was not an inherently bad person—confirmed.†   (source)
  • As my children, they were inherently inclined to the utmost grace.†   (source)
  • "And why are you inhere, holed up with this geeky daemon?" she says, gesturing at the Librarian.†   (source)
  • There are inherent limits, however, on how much this thriving new movement can achieve.†   (source)
  • For a moment, in his anger and dopey befuddlement, he had lost sight of the hazy, frightening concept inherent in that phrase pre-op shot.†   (source)
  • I suggested there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.†   (source)
  • In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said.†   (source)
  • Other people's optimism manifested itself, perhaps subconsciously, as opportunism: an inherent belief, in defiance of all logic, that although war was bound to come — that had been decided long ago — its actual outbreak would be delayed, so they could live life to the full a little longer.†   (source)
  • On occasion he drops everything to dart into the street for a fresh butt tossed from a moving vehicle, his flat face wrinkled into a scowl as he denounces the nicotine junkies whose weakness rots the underpinnings of civil society His mad dash between cars is a spectacle, not just for the inherent danger, but because he sometimes scrambles about in a full-length velvet burgundy-colored robe, looking like some kind of fantastical wizard.†   (source)
  • It is not inherently evil.†   (source)
  • He seemed, in fact, a man who knew inherently what women wanted—across from him, I felt my suit wilt, my manner go clumsy.†   (source)
  • What of the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy?†   (source)
  • Although surface ugliness is often found in the classic mode of understanding it is not inherent in it.†   (source)
  • The inherent dangerousness of the enterprise appealed to her far more than the game itself; she was not good enough at arithmetic to care whether she won or lost, there was no real joy in trying to beat the law of averages, but she derived some pleasure from deceiving Miss Blunt.†   (source)
  • "It's inherent.†   (source)
  • Unlike the Ra'zac, they are not inherently evil, merely overfond of war.†   (source)
  • Whenever Moody and I discussed going back to America, the implication was inherent that we were talking about me and Mahtob!†   (source)
  • Maize (what we called mealies and people in the West call corn), sorghum, beans, and pumpkins formed the largest portion of our diet, not because of any inherent preference for these foods, but because the people could not afford anything richer.†   (source)
  • Even though I was just figuring out that, for me, there was something inherently unappealing about getting married, I couldn't help but wonder if I'd take someone simply for the sake of making Dad happy.†   (source)
  • It was the most frustrating feeling in the world, second only to the inherent helplessness that came with being trapped in a camp, all of your decisions made for you.†   (source)
  • With strange, inherent deftness she copied the garb, the hair dressing, even the manner and speech, of such worthy models as came within her range of vision—like her daughter, she had an eye for fitness and beauty; that which was merely fashionable though truly inelegant, did not appeal to her.†   (source)
  • Some politicians are inherently attractive to voters and others simply aren't, and no amount of money can do much about it.†   (source)
  • "And then he saw the three of us—and realized for the first time that just because he is half immortal, it doesn't mean he is inherently evil.†   (source)
  • It would be well for your government to consider that having so many of your ships and our ships, your aircraft and our aircraft in close proximity is an inherently dangerous situation.†   (source)
  • The right, joined by some feminists, refers to "prostitutes" or "prostituted women" and argues that prostitution is inherently demeaning and offensive.†   (source)
  • It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.†   (source)
  • The chaplain felt most deceitful presiding at funerals, and it would not have astonished him to learn that the apparition in the tree that day was a manifestation of the Almighty's censure for the blasphemy and pride inherent in his function.†   (source)
  • But because normals do not have a second soul, they cannot handle a time loop's inherent paradoxes, and their brains turn to mush.†   (source)
  • She said that conflict, drama, and tragedy didn't mean a thing; there was nothing inherently valuable in them, nothing deserving of respect or admiration.†   (source)
  • Sonny Holmes had an inherent curiosity, an honest, all-American nosiness that came with crossing one's seventieth year and that did not try to conceal itself.†   (source)
  • Although this was arguably the most important case I would ever bring to court, and although—as my father pointed out—I hadn't been this motivated in my career in ages, there was an inherent paradox.†   (source)
  • And the cousins who hadn't tested as anticipated, but surprised their parents with assignments in the minor priesthoods, or the arts—this had not indicated any sort of unsteadiness inherent in the house, no, never.†   (source)
  • Everything I know makes me believe Imo is in the order that is inherent, amazingly, in all things, and in the way the universe opens to our questioning.†   (source)
  • The smaller enclosure was reassuring, as it removed him from the exposure to scrutiny inherent in larger areas-the room was more private, more personal, less open to invasion.†   (source)
  • At first, John Quincy objected, saying he preferred to remain at home and prepare for Harvard, but his mother convinced him of the great opportunity inherent in such an experience.†   (source)
  • The idea of being part angel, partly a symbol of goodness, and yet being beset by all the weaknesses inherent to humanity: frailty, cruelty, greed, selfishness, despair.†   (source)
  • Max had never seen Nolan in armor or even carrying a weapon, and their effect was strangely unsettling on such an inherently peaceful, good-natured man.†   (source)
  • Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.†   (source)
  • Inherently casual in dress, but not sloppy, she noted, filing the information away as she glanced at the open-collared shirt under his dark jacket.†   (source)
  • Linguists would challenge Prince Charles on two grounds: First, the concept of "words that shouldn't be" is alien to the freedom inherent in English.†   (source)
  • Every rose that comes to this garden has its own inherent surprise, its own built-in miracle.†   (source)
  • "Drowned," she repeats, clearly relishing the inherent wicked excitement of it.†   (source)
  • It is an issue of natural law and a free man's inherent right to maintain his liberty.†   (source)
  • I BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD IS INHERENTLY a very dangerous place and that things that are now very good can go bad very quickly.†   (source)
  • There is nothing inherently wrong with this.†   (source)
  • Faction: Inherent in Human Nature†   (source)
  • Surely your masters know that Cryshal-Tirith's door is invisible and undetectable to any beings inherent to the present plane the tower rests upon.†   (source)
  • Let me tell you one thing: I don't see the inherent value in the video games that kids are playing today.†   (source)
  • As an Israeli, Natalie knew that such operations were inherently dangerous and unpredictable.†   (source)
  • It is always wise to look beyond the immediate and contemplate the realm of possibilities inherent in the future.†   (source)
  • A human baby put in a wolf den would die, he said, not because the wolves wished it to die, but simply because it would be incapable, by virtue of its inherent helplessness, of living as a wolf.†   (source)
  • with a strength inherent in spider webs†   (source)
  • He cannot understand how the white man can show the most demeaning aspects of his nature and at the same time delude himself into thinking he is inherently superior.†   (source)
  • The maximum population was fixed at a hundred thousand: more than that, and the advantages inherent in a small, compact community would be lost.†   (source)
  • But that slight difference is one between a system that works, since it is constructed to match the facts, and one that is inherently unstable.†   (source)
  • No matter how long it takes, the end is upon us, not only in the East but in Africa too, and South America, Civilizations fall because of the errors inherent in them, and our error will kill us.†   (source)
  • Fiedler, knowing no doubt that the danger of a subsequent countercharge was inherent in such cases, was protecting his own back; the polemic would go down in the record and it would be a brave man who set himself to refute it.†   (source)
  • The regularity of the rhythm, independent of the meaning and inherent in the meter itself, annoyed him by its doggerel artificiality.†   (source)
  • As a representation of reality, there are inherent weaknesses in any art, but art excels at highlighting essence.
  • Under our constitution, all political power is inherent in the people.
  • She purchased a wide variety of stocks to minimize the inherent investment risk.
  • Risk is an inherent part of creativity.
  • Because in fact there are great categories of phenomena that are inherently unpredictable.†   (source)
  • But Westinghouse, whose AC system was inherently cheaper and more efficient, bid $399,000.†   (source)
  • No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal.†   (source)
  • You probably know that all vertebrate embryos are inherently female.†   (source)
  • Inherently, republican liberty seems to demand that all power comes from the people.†   (source)
  • I hardly believe in people being possessed by demons or a house being inherently evil.†   (source)
  • Any incentive is inherently a trade-off; the trick is to balance the extremes.†   (source)
  • She was sensitive, emotional and inherently kind.†   (source)
  • "Aren't rhetorical accusations of passive aggression inherently passive-aggressive?" my dad responded, and they went on like that for a while.†   (source)
  • IN 1995, THE American Academy of Pediatrics declared that "advertising directed at children is inherently deceptive and exploits children under eight years of age?'†   (source)
  • They talked to me for a bit about how the enchiladas were Famous Waters Enchiladas and Not to Be Missed and about how Gus's curfew was also ten, and how they were inherently distrustful of anyone who gave their kids curfews other than ten, and…†   (source)
  • Take the word "arbitrary" as an example: it doesn't mean anything inherently; rather, at some point in our past we agreed that it would mean what it does, and it does so only in English (those sounds would be so much gibberish in Japanese or Finnish).†   (source)
  • A person who's lived inside stone walls of a prison most of his life is likely to see stone as an inherently ugly material, even though it's also the prime material of sculpture, and a person who's lived in a prison of ugly plastic technology that started with his childhood toys and continues through a lifetime of junky consumer products is likely to see this material as inherently ugly.†   (source)
  • "Sasha, I know you don't want to accept the notion that Russia may be inherently inward looking, but do you think in America they are even having this conversation?†   (source)
  • But even if the raptors never get free," Arnold said, "I think we have to accept that Jurassic Park is inherently hazardous."†   (source)
  • It is inherently unstable.†   (source)
  • They are inherently unstable.†   (source)
  • And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees—breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you."†   (source)
  • There was nothing inherently melodramatic about the words, spoken all of a rush in a quick sleeping sigh, but Charity's hand went to her throat anyway.†   (source)
  • And that no matter what I said or how I tried to explain it to them, there would still be something inherently selfish about all of this.†   (source)
  • From his own experiences in Vietnam and his reading of the German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, Van Riper became convinced that war was inherently unpredictable and messy and nonlinear.†   (source)
  • Indeed, Adams not only put his trust in land as the safest of investments, but agreed in theory with Jefferson and Madison that an agricultural society was inherently more stable than any other—not to say more virtuous.†   (source)
  • I believed that because I had grown up the way I did, I was just inherently tougher than my more urbane coworkers, and could get away with more.†   (source)
  • Whereas Íorunn seemed to want the throne merely for the power she would gain thereafter, and Gannel did not seem inherently hostile to the Varden-although neither was he friendly toward them-Nado was openly and vehemently opposed to any involvement with Eragon, Nasuada, the Empire, Galbatorix, Queen Islanzadi, or, so far as Eragon could tell, any living being outside of the Beor Mountains.†   (source)
  • There was something inherently disreputable about Yossarian, always carrying on so disgracefully about that dead man in his tent who wasn't even there and then taking off all his clothes after the Avignon mission and going around without them right up to the day General Dreedle stepped up to pin a medal on him for his heroism over Ferrara and found him standing in formation stark naked.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, it warns us that such experiments are inherently difficult and we shouldn't unnecessarily multiply the difficulties.†   (source)
  • She has to close her eyes to hide the orgasmic pleasure inherent in GoFast-tasting.†   (source)
  • To do that you must know me enough to trust me and learn to rest in my inherent goodness.†   (source)
  • Fire and explosion were not the inherent dangers here.†   (source)
  • He believed, for example, that faith in God and certain moral norms were inherent in human reason.†   (source)
  • But the logic of it, the savings inherent, was winning the day.†   (source)
  • Marx believed there were a number of inherent contradictions in the capitalist method of production.†   (source)
  • Despite the wheel's inherent romantic potential, however, rides at night never became popular.†   (source)
  • The ugliness the Sutherlands were fleeing is not inherent in technology.†   (source)
  • Everything that happens has a natural cause, a cause that is inherent in the thing itself.†   (source)
  • Kant's philosophy states that it is inherent in us.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, it is inherent in the concept of a perfect entity that such an entity exists.†   (source)
  • Yes; it is inherent in the capitalist system that it is marching toward its own destruction.†   (source)
  • It has its full freedom to develop its inherent abilities.†   (source)
  • Descartes would have said that it is not inherent in the concept of a crocophant that it exists.†   (source)
  • 'Decay is inherent in all compound things.†   (source)
  • Their confrontation would be brief, the impact of the message startling, the threat inherent.†   (source)
  • "You cannot gainsay a word's inherent nature.†   (source)
  • "The problem was inherent with the Mi'Wexiqey design.†   (source)
  • Like our inherent weakness for liquor, we had brawling in our DNA.†   (source)
  • The inherent humor of the situation sometimes clouds the truly vast nature of the struggle.†   (source)
  • Glatun thermoelectrics don't need as much potential and have their own inherent potential …."†   (source)
  • It was an unbelievable pattern, but it had its own inherent logic.†   (source)
  • Her father had lived for moral responsibility-careful science, accountability, faith in man's inherent goodness.†   (source)
  • When I first met Linda she had been a climber herself-and an exceptionally gifted one-but she'd given it up after breaking an arm, injuring her back, and subsequently making a cold appraisal of the inherent risks.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, eunuchs were shunned, although the ancients understood the inherent power of this transmutational sacrifice.†   (source)
  • Hiro owns a couple of nice Nipponese swords, but he always wears them, and the whole idea of stealing fantastically dangerous weapons presents the would-be perp with inherent dangers and contradictions: When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.†   (source)
  • The first response is that disadvantaged kids simply don't have the same inherent ability to learn as children from more privileged backgrounds.†   (source)
  • This is the inherent power of prayer groups, healing circles, singing in unison, and worshipping en masse.†   (source)
  • Climbing was a magnificent activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, the inherent humor in the situation was overshadowed by the taxi dispatcher repeatedly hailing their cab over the radio.†   (source)
  • Inhere.†   (source)
  • Without overgeneralizing, it may be stated that an inherent and irreducible feature of any bathroom-tissue pool imple. mented at the office level, in an environment (i. e., building) in which comfort stations are distributed on a per-floor basis (i. e., in which several offices share a single facility) is that provision must be made within the confines of the individual office for temporary stationing of bathroom tissue distribution units (i. e., rolls).†   (source)
  • Still, it's certainly true that baptism is itself a symbolic act and that there's nothing inherent in the act that makes a person more religious or causes God to take notice.†   (source)
  • [The American public had no inherent national sympathy for mountain climbing, unlike the Alpine countries of Europe, or the British, who had invented the sport.†   (source)
  • If Demoxie worked, they said, then laughed—when Demoxie is implemented, of course it will work, they said—and when it does, you'll finally have a fully engaged populace, and when you do, the country and the world will hear from the youth, and their inherent idealism and progressivism will upend the planet.†   (source)
  • Throughout the Cold War, America's decentralized system of agriculture, relying upon millions of independent producers, was depicted as the most productive system in the world, as proof of capitalism's inherent superiority.†   (source)
  • Neither is the ugliness inherent in the materials of modern technology … a statement you sometimes hear.†   (source)
  • The problem of distributing bathroom tissue to workers presents inherent challenges for any office management system due to the inherent unpredictability of usage-not every facility usage transaction necessitates the use of bathroom tissue, and when it is used, the amount needed (number of squares) may vary quite widely from person to person and, for a given person, from one transaction to the next.†   (source)
  • The episode allows Paul Berlin to see a Vietcong tunnel, which his inherent terror will never allow him to do in real life, and this fantastic tunnel proves both more elaborate and more harrowing than the real ones.†   (source)
  • Over the course of the evening, the conversation drifted to the inherent risks of climbing-and guiding-Everest, and Litch remembers the discussion with chilling clarity: Hall, Harris, and Litch were in complete agreement that sooner or later a major disaster involving a large number of clients was "inevitable."†   (source)
  • She upends our expectations about the story of Bluebeard, or Puss-in-Boots, or Little Red Riding Hood to make us see the sexism inherent in those stories and, by extension, in the culture that embraced them.†   (source)
  • His casuist answer had been that although pure Quality was the same for everyone, the objects that people said Quality inhered in varied from person to person.†   (source)
  • "Inherent instability," Gennaro said.†   (source)
  • Mathematicians used to think that their language had some special inherent trueness that derived from the laws of logic.†   (source)
  • That it had inherent instability.†   (source)
  • In this he agreed with the rationalists, who said the ability to distinguish between right and wrong is inherent in human reason.†   (source)
  • Descartes only meant that we all possess the idea of a perfect entity, and that inherent in that idea is the fact that this perfect entity must exist.†   (source)
  • An equally rationalistic feature was that Locke believed that it was inherent in human reason to be able to know that God exists.†   (source)
  • Sensations like these—color, smell, taste, sound—do not reproduce the real qualities that are inherent in the things themselves.†   (source)
  • According to Descartes, this is just as certain as it is inherent in the idea of a circle that all points of the circle are equidistant from the center.†   (source)
  • Because I'm joined to you, my honor is inherent in your pledge, but as an individual, I'm not bound by it.†   (source)
  • I have also tried to retain the tension and excitement of events in these five days, for there is an inherent drama in the story of Andromeda, and if it is a chronicle of stupid, deadly blunders, it is also a chronicle of heroism and intelligence.†   (source)
  • We all want to believe that the key to making an impact on someone lies with the inherent quality of the ideas we present.†   (source)
  • Then Arya and Blodhgarm were moving among the men, silent and deadly, the elves' inherent grace making the violence appear more like an artfully staged performance than the sordid struggle most fights were.†   (source)
  • He trailed off, unable to describe the change inherent in that mechanized noun, the death of the romantic and its sterile, carnal revenant, living only a forced respiration of glitter and ceremony; the geometric steps of courtship during the Easter-night dance at the Great Hall which had replaced the mad scribble of love which he could only intuit dimly-hollow grandeur in the place of mean and sweeping passions which might once have erased souls.†   (source)
  • Predictably, she found her own hypocrisy (inherent in the wave and the nod) incomprehensible and sickening.†   (source)
  • I remember wanting to say something about the beauty of their motion, the inherent grace, and how incredible it was, this baby-kangaroo-in-pouch feeling.†   (source)
  • They go crazy, spinning around like infinitesimal Ping-Pong balls trying to find tiny tunnels to explode through, drawn by their own inherent compulsions.†   (source)
  • She was obsessed with regaining the city for herself, with reclaiming her inherent right to its privileges and charms.†   (source)
  • Zimbardo's conclusion was that there are specific situations so powerful that they can overwhelm our inherent predispositions.†   (source)
  • Tappan commented to a friend that the incident, complete with its inherent ironies, made it probable that it was nothing less than divine intervention by the Almighty on behalf of the cause.†   (source)
  • Malan's reply, signed by his private secretary, asserted that whites had an inherent right to take measures to preserve their own identity as a separate community, and ended with the threat that if we pursued our actions the government would not hesitate to make full use of its machinery to quell any disturbances.†   (source)
  • There was always this inherent tension in American English: "unhemmed latitude" versus the American schoolmarm.†   (source)
  • My database was eventually used to design a uniform product that eliminated the flaws inherent in wood.†   (source)
  • PRONUNCIATIONGUIDE AND GLOSSARY ON THEORIGIN OFNAMES: To the casual observer, the various names an intrepid traveler will encounter throughout Alagaesia might seem but a random collection of labels with no inherent integrity, culture, or history.†   (source)
  • To the Yankee matron from Braintree, the sloppy, ill-mannered, egotistical old woman seemed the very personification of the decadence and decay inherent in European society.†   (source)
  • Because of the inherent risks, the elves rarely revealed their true names, and when they did, it was only to those whom they trusted without reservation.†   (source)
  • But what Zimbardo and Hartshorne and May are suggesting is that this is a mistake, that when we think only in terms of inherent traits and forget the role of situations, we're deceiving ourselves about the real causes of human behavior.†   (source)
  • While he was grateful for their presence, and he doubted their inherent politeness would allow them to eavesdrop on him, he did not want to provide the queen of the elves with any opportunity to learn the secrets of the Varden, nor to gain a hold over him.†   (source)
  • It had been drawn up by George Mason, who wrote that "all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights …. among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty."†   (source)
  • Beyond that, he no longer believed that life possessed inherent meaning-not after seeing men torn apart by the Kull, a race of giant Urgals, and the ground a bed of thrashing limbs and the dirt so wet with blood it soaked through the soles of his boots.†   (source)
  • Inherent potential?†   (source)
  • We have been afraid to think…… Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write…… Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments …. that many of our rights are inherent and essential, agreed on as maxims and established as preliminaries, even before Parliament existed…… Let us read and recollect and impress upon our souls the views and ends of our more immediate forefathers, in exchanging their native country for a dreary, inhospitable wilderness………†   (source)
  • It is for this reason that the avant-garde is outlawed, and not so much because a superior culture is inherently a more critical culture.†   (source)
  • It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard — a clever face, and yet somehow inherently despicable, with a kind of senile silliness in the long thin nose, near the end of which a pair of spectacles was perched.†   (source)
  • The Christian Middle Ages clearly saw that the secular state was inherently capitalist.†   (source)
  • She had hardly ever said a word to him to produce this impression, but it was a part of her, either a projection of her mysterious and outlandish background or of something inherently dramatic, passionate and unusual in herself.†   (source)
  • To acquire languages, departed or living in spite of such obstinacies as he now knew them inherently to possess, was a herculean performance which gradually led him on to a greater interest in it than in the presupposed patent process.†   (source)
  • This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centred on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.†   (source)
  • …as corn-beef hash; that the word "dude" is no longer frequently used; that there are Ministers of the Gospel who accept evolution; that some persons of apparent intelligence and business ability do not always vote the Republican ticket straight; that it is not a universal custom to wear scratchy flannels next the skin in winter; that a violin is not inherently more immoral than a chapel organ; that some poets do not have long hair; and that Jews are not always pedlers or pants-makers.†   (source)
  • Inherently hospitable, he protested.†   (source)
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